Re:Reddit was down for over two hours
by lazyjones on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:46PM
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Indeed, also not everybody is trying to squeeze money out of their user base regardless of costs (to popularity, principles...).
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Reddit gold, the new Reddit platinum and bronze, they already show ads, redesign shows ads much more prominently. Literally dozens of ad trackers when you load their site.
Reddit is just as much of a profit driven company as Facebook or Twitter, I’m not sure why you’d think otherwise.
Re:Reddit was down for over two hours
by lazyjones on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @07:57PM
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> Reddit is just as much of a profit driven company as Facebook or Twitter, I’m not sure why you’d think otherwise.
Because, among other things, they don't show annoying ad formats and don't demand real names and phone numbers from their users.
Yet :)